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152063
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—You're convinced I'm crazy. I'm convinced you're incompetent.
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152011
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While Leif was still very young, his emotions were very easy to read, for they appeared on his parchment coloured skin, named in his mother's writing. When he was seventeen, Leif fell in love. She was a pretty maid, one of the college servants who kept his…
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152042
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The rain is filling up my shoes,
I can’t see
through my glasses,
Rain all inside me.
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152032
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My pain is a black pearl hidden in a clean shell.
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152072
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This is what it is to feel yourself forget.
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152052
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The increasingly furrowed lines on his forehead made her stomach clench.
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152064
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You left paint and blood smeared on the wall.
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152088
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I attended the burial of our affair when I found the notebook-maybe it should be called her diary-she had foolishly forgotten, leaving it on the deck of my beach house where she stayed while I was on that short trip to Chicago and I was numbed at first, unsure how to…
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152055
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This was not the bar that the artist usually frequented.
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152055
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where will we be/ when it happens?
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152061
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It was the dead of winter. I took my father's shotgun from his closet. He kept it wrapped up in one of those khaki-colored gun tote bags that had a zipper running the whole length of the gun. It was a 16-gauge, single action shotgun. Anyone could tell wha
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152073
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At last, we learn if Blow has the cojones to fight.
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1519107
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Once you descend, the third rail/
hums its invitation
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1519109
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After becoming single at age 62, I joined an online dating site. After a year of perusing profiles and meeting men for coffee, staying single is starting to look better and better to me. But I've stayed on the site, in part for the pure enjoyment of…
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1519108
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One day, my feet and hands got into an argument. My feet argued that they were superior because they were not only the foundation of my body, but the cause of its mobility. They were modest in size, yet supported and transported an entire body that towered over them.…
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151985
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Perhaps my grandparents, Fred and Lela, when they were growing up....
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151932
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"Sometimes things just don’t go as planned. It doesn’t mean anyone is to blame - It just is."
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151900
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I play in the dirt with cattle bones
while Mother rattles the sky.
She tells me I have my fathers eyes.
The words come through bloody fissures in her lips.
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151944
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You are in a car speeding through Dublin towards the West year after year the journey uncoils past the same landmarks Kilmainham Jail strapped to a chair bullet to the brain on by the Rowntree Mackintosh factory where the black and yellow and orange and r
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151987
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Downtown Milwaukee My feet are exposed, never been out in public even out here— …
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151987
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I love Hooters. Best cheese steak in town in my opinion.
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151977
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She tossed the big bird into the air. It wobbled, then flew away.
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1518119
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The summer I turned fourteen I had a job babysitting our neighbor, Pam's three year old daughter, Annie, three nights a week while Pam was going to Junior College, but it was hardly work because, after I tucked Annie in to sleep, I just watched TV, sitting in Pam's den…
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151800
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Azure took the paper and read it herself. She wondered about those four mysterious beings that communicated with her.
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151830
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Roanne, just out of jail, went to cop. That is, she went to beg fat little Freddy the dopeman to front her once more. She'd have to fuck Freddy, of course, but, well, maybe he'd wait until after this time. Likely not…
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inside i know my heart rattles
cause outside i'm only seeing
that the truth is in tatters
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151832
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We were talking in the dark in my room. He lay on a mattress on the floor. He came for a sleepover.
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151831
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ghosts of the previous owners who leave a trail of whispers
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